Registered sex offender attempted to sexually assault child in girls' restroom at California school: police



A registered sex offender was arrested for attempting to sexually assault a child in a girls' restroom at a California school, police say.

Logan Nighswonger, 32, was arrested on Friday afternoon by officers with the Riverside Police Department. He was charged with attempted sex acts with a child under the age of 10 and being a registered sex offender on school grounds. He is being held without bail.

Police said in a statement that Nighswonger jumped the fence surrounding the McAuliffe Elementary School in Riverside. A campus supervisor allegedly heard a girl crying inside a school bathroom and observed the man come out of the restroom.

The school supervisor reportedly followed Nighswonger as he exited the school, jumped the fence, and entered his vehicle at a parking lot. The school supervisor provided police with a description of the vehicle and the car's license plate.

Police did not reveal how Nighswonger was able to enter the school building.

Law enforcement tracked Nighswonger to a business in the city of Placentia – roughly 30 miles from Riverside. His vehicle was registered in Placentia.

Police arrested Nighswonger, transported him back to Riverside, and booked him into jail.

An investigation into the sexual assault of the child was launched by Riverside Police School Resource Officers assigned to the Alvord Unified School District. Assisting in the investigation were detectives with the Riverside Police Department's Sexual Assault Child Abuse Unit and specialists from the Forensics Unit.

Riverside Police Chief Larry Gonzalez said, "The safety of our students and staff at school will always remain amongst our top priorities. When that safety is put at risk, we will do everything within the law to quickly find and arrest the person responsible as we did yesterday."

Alvord Unified School District Superintendent Allan Mucerino said in a statement, "Children should never experience a situation such as this and it deeply saddens me that this incident occurred. It gives us pause and reinforces our commitment to school safety in recognition that even when we follow safety best practices and do everything in our power to secure our campuses there continues to be threats, which we will continue to work tirelessly to mitigate."

"We are grateful to our law enforcement partners for their swift action in apprehending and removing this threat to our society," Mucerino added.

Anyone with additional information regarding the sexual assault is asked to contact Riverside Police's Sexual Assault's Child Abuse Unit at 951-353-7121.

A court hearing is scheduled for Tuesday.

Law & Crime reported that Nighswonger "landed on the California sex offender registry because of a 2016 conviction for annoying or molesting a child under 18 years of age, online records show."

Animal control officers forced to euthanize nearly 150 roosters after police disrupt cockfight: Report



Police in California claim to have disrupted a large cockfight over the weekend and that nearly 150 roosters had to be euthanized as a result.

At around 10:30 p.m. local time on Friday, deputies from the Riverside County Sheriff's Office were called about "a loud and large event" at a residence in Jurupa Valley, approximately an hour east of Los Angeles.

When police arrived at the residence, they found nearly 200 people gathered, many of whom quickly dispersed. They also found evidence of an illegal cockfighting ring and 143 birds intended for cockfighting, according to a statement.

"[M]ultiple deceased or severely injured birds" were also discovered, according to a press release.

With so many animals involved in the incident, police requested assistance from the local animal control office. Animal control officials then "gathered and humanely euthanized all of the birds," a process which took about six hours, according to a statement from Riverside County Department of Animal Services.

"The birds must be euthanized," the statement claims, "because Animal Services cannot adopt out such birds as they are valuable and they would almost always end up back in a cockfighting ring.

"They are not suitable as pets," the statement adds.

A man at the scene claimed to own the birds and relinquished them to the custody of police when they were then put down. The man has been cited for "for possession of fighting blades," a misdemeanor charge which carries a sentence of up to a year in jail and a $10,000 fine.

However, the investigation is still ongoing, and the RCDAS is expected to encourage the local district attorney to file felony animal cruelty charges against the unnamed suspect. In California, anyone convicted of felony animal cruelty can face up to three years in jail and a fine of up to $20,000.

Turpin siblings, first tortured by their own parents, now suing county, agency for placing them with abusive foster family



The Turpin siblings, who endured years of physical, emotional, and psychological abuse at the hands of their biological parents, are now suing their county of residence as well as a private foster agency for placing them with an abusive foster family.

Back in 2018, 17-year-old Jordan Turpin helped liberate herself and her twelve siblings from the clutches of their barbarous parents when she made a daring escape, sneaking out of a window at night and dialing 911 using an old, disabled cell phone. Turpin managed to convince a deputy that she and her siblings were in a very unhealthy environment by showing him photos of her sisters chained to a bed as punishment for stealing their mother's candy. One of the girls had been chained up for over two weeks. The deputy then did a wellness check at the home, and after finding another child chained up, immediately arrested the Turpin parents.

Once David and Louise Turpin were arrested, more details about the "House of Horrors" were revealed to the public. Twelve of the couple's thirteen children often ate only once a day, bathed only once a year, and were given little or no formal education. In 2019, David and Louise Turpin pled guilty to imprisoning and torturing their children, and both are serving life sentences.

Unfortunately, the Turpin children's hellish existence didn't end there. According to a lawsuit filed by six of the siblings, Riverside County officials and a private foster care agency called ChildNet knowingly placed them into another abusive home.

The lawsuit alleges that the Turpin children were placed in the care of a couple, identified only as Mr. and Mrs. O, and the Os' adult daughter, all three of whom reportedly inflicted physical, emotional, and psychological abuse on the children. The examples of abuse listed in the lawsuit include sexual misconduct, hitting children with belts, pulling their hair, and force-feeding them until they threw up and then forcing them to eat their own vomit.

The kids were also allegedly often left to sit alone outside for hours, made to recount the abuse suffered under the Turpins, and were told that they would be returned to their parents if they didn't cooperate.

The lawsuit claims that the Os had a documented history of abuse and that both the county and ChildNet were aware of it or should have been aware of it. Instead, the agencies allowed the Turpin children to remain in the care of the Os for three years.

“Defendants had a duty to protect plaintiffs, but instead protected Mr. and Mrs. O by failing to report the abuse and neglect of plaintiffs to Child Protective Services or to law enforcement and by failing to intervene and interfere when abuse and neglect was reported by others,” the lawsuit argues.

Neither ChildNet nor county representatives have responded to requests for comment from the Huffington Post.

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Man caught on security video firebombing Republican Women's headquarters in California



Surveillance video captured a man photobombing a Republican Women's headquarters in California and months later the police announced that they had captured and charged a suspect in the alleged attack.

The firebomb attack on the East Valley Republican Women Federated offices in La Quinta occurred on May 31.

The video shows a man clad in all black breaking the windows of the offices with a metal bat. He then takes an improvised incendiary bomb, commonly known as a molotov cocktail, and tosses it into the building.

When the first attack fails to light the building on fire, he comes back and breaks some more windows, grabs the bottles, and refills them with gasoline to throw them back into the building.

Video from inside the offices showed the fire spreading and the smoke filling the room after the second attack.

Here's a video of stills from the firebomb attack:

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"It's just kind of that thing that hangs on to you and makes you feel not comfortable all the time, when you have something like that happen," said Joy Miedece, the president of the women's organization. "You're violated, you're absolutely violated."

She told KESQ-TV that she arrived at the headquarters just moments after the attack.

Police announced that they had arrested and charged Carlos Espriu, 23, with allegedly committing the attack.

"Investigators determined that Espriu was attending a party in Indio on Sept. 9 and stopped a vehicle he was driving when he left the party," said a release from local officials.

A Palm Desert man has been arrested & is facing charges for an #arson at the East Valley Republican Women Federated… https://t.co/xAZQcqEUGk
— Riverside County DA's Office (@Riverside County DA's Office)1599768649.0

Law enforcement officials said they found Espriu's social media account and discovered a post that read, "I wanna go burn sh** n get hit with tear gas," around the time of the attack.

According to the complaint against Espriu, he was recorded detailing how he put together the molotov cocktails and the events of the night when he allegedly firebombed the offices.

Espriu is being held on a $1 million bail. If convicted of the charges, he faces a sentence of up to 20 years in prison.

Here's a local news report about the incident:

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